Society
Building a lasting culture of giving in Singapore
To support individuals and communities in need, we must all play an active role – whether through organisations or as individuals
China’s population shrinks again as policies fail to reverse decline
For the fourth year in a row, the country reports more deaths than births in 2025 as its birth rate plunges to a record low
Holding the line between people and algorithms
Efficiency alone is not progress; technology must augment our humanity – not erode it
Santa Claus is still a woman
There is something particularly stubborn about gender roles at Christmas
Rare woman yakuza on path to redemption in Japan
A MISSING fingertip offers a clue to Mako Nishimura’s criminal past as one of Japan’s few women yakuza. But after clawing her way out of the underworld, she now spends her days helping other retired g...
Building the next chapter of scientific competitiveness
Singapore must make the shift from measuring progress in research outputs or startup numbers to judging success by how science improves lives
Jaded young Chinese reset lives with rural ‘retirement’
[DALI, China] Wang Dong hasn’t worked for months and doesn’t plan to, whiling away his days at a lakeside town as one of a growing number of young Chinese “retiring” in the countryside.
How golden ages really start – and end
The greatest civilisations of the past 3,000 years were the opposite of Maga
Beyond Adolescence
WITH its story of a boy accused of murdering a girl after his mind is poisoned through his social media reading, the Netflix series “Adolescence” has deservedly won praise from its many viewers and st...
